Zitat des Tages von Jenny Lewis:
I write music, really, to make myself feel better.
I had a huge Lisa Frank sticker collection. I traded them.
For me personally, I just try to prove myself in my work. I'm just trying to get better at what I do, and hopefully that will impact women in music, and hopefully the girls in the crowd will see my up there as a bandleader and think, 'Wow, maybe I can do that one day.'
I find most modern country virtually unlistenable. I can't relate to the music or the lyrics.
I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.
I like babies, but not in the front row. I don't want to sing directly to a baby.
I am a child of digital generation. I have done most of the records with Rilo Kiley on computers, on Pro Tools or other digital programs.
I've always felt lonely, even if I'm in a great relationship or surrounded by my friends and family.
When you're in your mid-thirties, the cult of people who have children around you all want you in their cult, and they constantly ask you, 'So when are you going to have a baby?'
Being in a band is a really magical thing because you've got a family and you operate as this one entity. It's very democratic; everyone is involved in the output. But within that, there can be a lot of disagreements and strife.
It would be nice to create something that's healing rather than slightly creepy and darkly judgmental!
I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.
Rock n' roll is a pretty fun job.
I've always tried to get around writing love songs, I guess because I've always had a hard time saying, 'I love you.'
You wouldn't want to be in a rock band - trust me.
In your mid-30s, you have to take inventory, or you'll stumble.
When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw for a teenager: there were no cellphones, no Internet, and the only music I had with me was this cassette by Liz Phair. I was writing a lot of poetry, and she embodied a talky style of songwriting that I found very accessible.
I think I have a hard time expressing myself in my relationships. I use songs to tell people how I'm feeling. If I can't say 'I love you,' I'll write a song about it and hope that the person figures it out.
It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.
I'm constantly dodging people in L.A. There are some people I don't ever wanna see again, but if you live where you grew up, you're running into people constantly.
Some shows suck, but I always - the show must go on. I learned it from my past as a child actor. The show must go on. You have to just keep on with it.
I'm not a religious person by any means. But I'm curious.
Sometimes things feel hopeless. Not always within my own life - but looking outward, it seems like rough times lie ahead of us. The world seems to be kind of caving in on itself in a lot of ways. But I try to look on the bright side.
When I sit down to write a song, there is no filter. I'm not trying to write for anyone or anything specifically. It's just trying to capture a little piece of your soul - even if it's a really ugly part.
Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.
When I was a teenager, I went to Europe on a backpacking trip by myself, and I met a woman who was following Sebadoh. It was the early 1990s, and that was my introduction to indie rock.
When you're in a band, inevitably, someone is siding with someone else, and you're fighting over something that happened in the band five years ago.
I have a great work ethic - from watching Lucille Ball, not necessarily my own family.
When I think people like one record more than the other, then someone will surprise me.
I love 'Wowee Zowee.' That was the first Pavement record I bought.
I learn lessons with every interview I give.
I think regardless of where people are from, country music is a through line.
My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn't see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I'd see him every couple years.
It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.
It's weird because I am accessible to people on Twitter, and I can choose to read good things or mean things, and people can reach out to me directly and tell me how much they hate me or love the song. It's a very strange new paradigm as an artist to find yourself among this kind of connectivity.
The best shows I play, I almost don't even remember off the stage.
